Check out CIVITAS New Mobility Services Community Super Charged Autumn Calendar
The New Mobility Services (NMS) community—part of CIVITAS—will organise this autumn many opportunities to meet and collaborate in person all over Europe. It will host four events to address barriers to cooperation.
- Network with cities, scale-ups, and industry experts
- Join discussions on overcoming collaboration challenges
- Share knowledge and best practices
- Showcase innovations and grow your network
European cities are working on transforming urban mobility towards a smart, sustainable, safe and inclusive system. People want to live in cities that offer optimal use of space, livability, accessibility, inclusivity and clean air. Cities struggle, while scale-ups have great innovative potential to boost this transformation. We need to deploy the smart, connected, shared, sustainable new mobility services that scale-ups have on offer. NMS will dive into the issues that hinder successful collaboration between cities and scale-ups and aim to solve them. Are you a scale-up with on-demand, shared, connected new mobility solutions with ambitions and experience in doing business with cities all over Europe? Are you a city that wants to make use of the full innovative potential of scale-ups to boost your urban mobility transformation?
Find below the details of a series of events proposed in October and November as side events or integrated into larger European conferences.
Side event ‘catalyst for solutions’ at CIVITAS Forum 2024 in Parma, Italy
Venue: Casa della Musica, Auditorium, Parma, Italy
Date & time: Thursday 3 October, 15:00h – 18:00h
Programme:
- Welcome, introduction and goal-setting
- Speed networking
- Work sessions:
- Let’s talk barriers: Problem mapping
- I got 99 problems… : Further defining the issues at hand
Moderators: Janneke Brouwer & Juliette Thijs
Kick-off by Anna-Maria Martyshchuk, DG MOVE, European Commission.
Seminar Catalyst for solutions at European Week of Regions and Cities 2024 in Brussels, Belgium
Venue: Comic Art Museum, Rue des Sables 20, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Date & time: Tuesday 8 October, 10:00h – 16:00h
Programme:
Morning
- Welcome, introduction and speakers on the subject
- Work session: Coming up with radical solutions to barriers
Networking lunch
Afternoon
- Welcome (back)
- Let’s talk about innovative procurement, opportunities for improvement. Together with Lieve Bos, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission
- Work session:
- To make this work, we need a community. Let’s expand it!
- Who’s contributing? – Among others
Moderators: Janneke Brouwer & Tamlyn Shimizu
With speakers: Anna-Maria Martyshchuk, DG MOVE, European Commission, Karen Vancluysen, Secretary General Polis Network, Martijn van Gruijthuijsen, Regional Minister for Economic Affairs, Province of Noord-Brabant and Lieve Bos, Policy Officer on Innovation Procurement at the European Commission
Side event at Smart City Expo World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Spain
Venue: Room Zona Tapias, Area CC1
Date & time: Tuesday 5 November, 12:30h – 14:30h
Programme overview:
- Networking lunch
- Speeddating with solution providers
Session 4H Upscaling and Fast-tracking: from smart to smarter cities at Polis Conference 2024 in Karlsruhe, Germany
Date & time: Thursday 28 November, 09:00h -11:15h and 14:00h – 16:00h
Programme overview
Morning
- Welcome, introduction
- Presentations and interactive discussion on overcoming barriers preventing successful collaboration
Afternoon
- Welcome (back)
- Work sessions
Building on the work that has been done in earlier sessions: Solution selection
Finishing up the series of events: Next steps to overcome obstacles in 2025
Moderators Janneke Brouwer & Evelien Marlier
All four events can be joined separately and have a specific focus, lineup, and format. However, the series of events has a structure and development, so it adds value to join more or all of them. Register now for one or more events, listed above, here.
Be aware that for the full conferences in Parma, Barcelona and Karlsruhe you need to register seperately at CIVITAS, SCEWC and Polis:
– NMS/CIVITAS side event during the CIVITAS Forum in Parma directly after the closing plenary: Thursday October 3 afternoon. – https://civitas.eu/forum2024 (free access)
– NMS/CIVITAS seminar during the European Week of Regions and Cities in Brussels, Tuesday October 8th in the Comic Museum 10.00 – 16.00h – https://tinyurl.com/2f3bh94b (free access)
– NMS contributing to CIVITAS Agora and network event during the Smart Cities Expo World Congress in Barcelona November 5th – https://www.smartcityexpo.com/ (conference fee)
– NMS session during Annual Polis Conference in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg Thursday November 28th – https://www.polisnetwork.eu/2024-annual-polis-conference/ (free access for Polis members)
